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Embattled PAP Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) Teo Ser Luck appears to have run out of luck this time over the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) debacle which may cut short his fledgling political career this time.
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Together with his boss Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Teo was responsible for bringing the inaugural YOG to Singapore though Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had admitted in 2007 that Singapore is not quite ready to host the YOG.
Plagued by lack of support from Singaporeans right from the beginning, the YOG is doomed to fail with the Ministry of Education (MOE) having to purchase 80,000 out of the 100,000 tickets on sale to save the PAP regime’s its blushes.
Despite overwhelming evidence showing that most Singaporeans are not interested in the YOG, Mr Teo continues to put up a brave front and pretend all is going well with his expensive pet project which has come under increased fire lately from Singaporeans for bursting the initial budget by more than three times to a shocking $389 million dollars.
In an interview with YahooNews, Mr Teo says he is “confident” that more YOG tickets will be sold when Singapore starts to perform well at the games.
“I wouldn’t say we are disappointed, I think we are quite happy with the ticket sales so far but I also hope more Singaporeans will also support the games and Team Singapore,” he was quoted as saying in Yahoo News.
According to reports on the ground, Singapore students are being forced by schools to attend YOG games with one school Kuo Chuan Primary School slapping a $5 deposit on the students to ensure they turn up.
The sale of YOG tickets in the open market is so bad that they have been “distributed” to government agencies, statutory boards and grassroots organizations to be given free of charge to their staff.
The Civil Service Club is currently giving out 400 FREE YOG tickets to its members for the YOG Closing Ceremony.
The YOG was dogged by controversies even before it was officially opened last Saturday with complaints of Singapore volunteers being fed “DOG” food and treated like “slaves” under inhumane working conditions which run contrary to the Olympian values of “excellence, respect and friendship.”
As expected, the YOG has struck a “chord” among all PAP ministers and MPs with many of them being “infected” by the fake “enthusiasm” on the ground generated by the state using precious public resources.
Mr Teo must be quite “happy” with the good astroturfing done by MOE and other government agencies so far to generate an artificial hype about the YOG which would have put North Korea’s Workers’ Party to shame.
[Get instant updates and discussions about the YOG on our Facebook page here]
Together with his boss Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Teo was responsible for bringing the inaugural YOG to Singapore though Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had admitted in 2007 that Singapore is not quite ready to host the YOG.
Plagued by lack of support from Singaporeans right from the beginning, the YOG is doomed to fail with the Ministry of Education (MOE) having to purchase 80,000 out of the 100,000 tickets on sale to save the PAP regime’s its blushes.
Despite overwhelming evidence showing that most Singaporeans are not interested in the YOG, Mr Teo continues to put up a brave front and pretend all is going well with his expensive pet project which has come under increased fire lately from Singaporeans for bursting the initial budget by more than three times to a shocking $389 million dollars.
In an interview with YahooNews, Mr Teo says he is “confident” that more YOG tickets will be sold when Singapore starts to perform well at the games.
“I wouldn’t say we are disappointed, I think we are quite happy with the ticket sales so far but I also hope more Singaporeans will also support the games and Team Singapore,” he was quoted as saying in Yahoo News.
According to reports on the ground, Singapore students are being forced by schools to attend YOG games with one school Kuo Chuan Primary School slapping a $5 deposit on the students to ensure they turn up.
The sale of YOG tickets in the open market is so bad that they have been “distributed” to government agencies, statutory boards and grassroots organizations to be given free of charge to their staff.
The Civil Service Club is currently giving out 400 FREE YOG tickets to its members for the YOG Closing Ceremony.
The YOG was dogged by controversies even before it was officially opened last Saturday with complaints of Singapore volunteers being fed “DOG” food and treated like “slaves” under inhumane working conditions which run contrary to the Olympian values of “excellence, respect and friendship.”
As expected, the YOG has struck a “chord” among all PAP ministers and MPs with many of them being “infected” by the fake “enthusiasm” on the ground generated by the state using precious public resources.
Mr Teo must be quite “happy” with the good astroturfing done by MOE and other government agencies so far to generate an artificial hype about the YOG which would have put North Korea’s Workers’ Party to shame.
